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OCR: In the concentration camps death and labor camps the guards pitted inmates against one another by giving some of them positions of authority These were the "kapos or the work detail leaders and the "block elders who functioned as monitors of the barracks. In exchange for better food, warmer ciothing and more comfortabie sieeping arrangements kapos and block elders Organized and disciplined the rank -and-file prisoners according to the wishes of the Although some used their authority to improve conditions in the camps most mistreated and expioited the prisoners under their authority in much the same way the SS did. They feit compeiied to op so to in order to preserve their privileges and their iives, but they aiso became accustomed to their power and gradually lost their feelings of solidar ...